Quotes

"Tidak ada kabar adalah kabar, yaitu kabar tidak ada kabar. Tidak ada kepastian juga adalah kepastian, yaitu kepastian tidak ada kepastian. Hidup ini juga memang tentang menunggu. Menunggu kita untuk menyadari: kapan kita akan berhenti menunggu."

"...but talking to a ghost about a demon when you’re in a room full of people who can’t see either of them is not to be recommended."

"If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane."

"Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip."

"It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast."

"Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels."

"The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage"

"I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it."

"I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate."

"What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God toact in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believehe is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throwaway fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that wehave and all that we are so we may follow only our simple beliefthat the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will stilldo what he says in his Word."

"If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, "What's stopping you?"

"It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title."

"I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance."

"Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue."

"You can't Google life"

"If you want something done, you'll have to dream it yourself."

"God is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be."

"She had one of those goofy smiles that made you wonder if she was too stupid to know that life sucks most of the time."

"If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?"

"What surrounds us is what is within us."